{"id":196001,"date":"2020-04-04T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=196001"},"modified":"2020-04-04T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T01:02:59","slug":"sanford-health-plan-waives-out-of-pocket-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=196001","title":{"rendered":"Sanford Health Plan waives out of pocket, costs COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Officials with the Sanford Health Plan say the insurance carrier is<strong> waiving all out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment through the end of May.<\/strong> The health plan will cover<strong> all costs for testing and treatment for its members, including outpatient care<\/strong> <strong>and inpatient hospital stays.<\/strong> It applies to all fully insured group and individual plans for its customers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. Out-of-pocket costs include medical co-pays, deductibles and coinsurance charges related to treatment for COVID-19. The announcement follows a similar move earlier this week by the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in those four states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Officials with the Sanford Health Plan say the insurance carrier is waiving all out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment through the end of May. The health plan will cover all costs for testing and treatment for its members, including outpatient care and inpatient hospital stays. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196004,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196001\/revisions\/196004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}